Re: IE prefix "*s"

>
>
> > I was wondering if the *h1su- "good" root had anything to do with

the

> > *se-, *swe- "one's own' etc root (you might want to rummage

through

> >
> > http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/sw.html
>
> Unlikely. The *-u- in *h1(e)su- is an PIE adjectival stem formant,

not part

> of the root, so the morphological division is really *h1es-u-. I

wouldn't

> rule out a connection with *h1es- 'to be', given that the other

adjective

> meaning 'good' is *wesu-, as if from *wes-. If this is a

coincidence, it's a

> very odd one, though the semantic side of the connection isn't

clear to me

> (apart from the fact that most people find it better to be than not

to be).

>

Yes, most peoples do.
You didn't comment on the idea of *h1sw- "one's own"?

Torsten